The ability of prefilled vaccine syringes to meet the needs to healthcare facilities, such as reducing wastage, decreasing the time for drug administration, and reducing the risks of errors and contamination, will foster its adoption for vaccination purposes during the forecast period.

WHO estimates that 40 percent of the more than 16 billion injections administered worldwide annually involve reused, unsterilized syringes and needles, with rates of unsafe injections climbing to 70 percent in some countries.

It is also notable that a local drug user organization opened a syringe exchange program at the time of the policy change, and eventually peer involvement in the delivery of the syringe exchange program became the standard locally," researchers wrote.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of three different safety syringes on non-injected drug volume remaining in the syringe after completion of simulated injections relative to a naked syringe.

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